The best part of Coachella isn't the music – it's the food

Coachella is many things – a music festival, a study in boundary-pushing style and personality, a celebration of the arts and so much more.

But you can't talk about the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival without gushing about the food. And that's just as well, because when you gather 200,000 hipsters in one huge swath of desert in sunny SoCal for two weekends, one thing's for sure: they all get hungry.

You might say the food here is as avant garde and eccentric as the people eating it. After all, Coachella is nothing if not a place to be seen – and heard – whether you're a musician or an attendee. But with a festival of this magnitude, the vendors tapped to feed the crowds have rightfully stepped up to the plate.

It wouldn't be a proper Coachella menu without plenty of vegan fare, and this year's selection does not remotely disappoint. There's Erven, a vegan Mediterranean restaurant whose Israeli food is a favorite among the Los Angeles foodie community and who has erected a substantial pop-up at Coachella.

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And along with the handful of veteran bands who have made
Coachella a worldwide music destination, there are also some new and
notable alternative acts to discover. An Israel-based band called
Dudu Tessa and the Kuwaitis,
which has been busy touring with Radiohead over the past few months and
had two Coachella performances in their schedule this year.

And then there's the star-studded lineup that includes Lady Gaga, Tove Lo, Lorde, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Drake, DJ Snake, Mac DeMarco and DJ Khaled. There are lots more, but listing them all would take so long.